Follow-up to September 18, 2006 posting Belgian Court Rules Against Google in Copyright Dispute, this press release from the World Association of Publishers, September 22, 2006:
“In the week that Belgian publishers won their case against Google for illegally publishing content without prior consent, a coalition of print media associations are preparing to launch a global pilot project…called ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol)…which allows online content providers to systematically provide information about access and use of their content to news aggregators and others on the web. The information, provided in a form that can be recognised and interpreted by search engine “crawlers”, will tell search engine operators and other users under what terms they can use the content.”
Related news: As of September 23, the text of the Belgian court order, dated September 5, 2006 is now posted on Google Begium’s homepage, in a continuous text version. Users may read it in Dutch, French, German or English translations.
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